Man indicted on sex charge

He is accused of failure to register as a sex offender

A federal grand jury in Corpus Christi indicted a 56-year-old man on Wednesday on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender when he moved to Texas, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Paul Burton Jones was arrested last month by U.S. Marshals in Corpus Christi after authorities discovered he no longer was living at his last registered address in Oklahoma.

Jones, who was convicted in 1996 on two counts of interstate transport of child pornography, last registered in Oklahoma in 2004, according to the release. But by July 15, the office reported, he no longer resided at that address.

Failure to register as a sex offender is a federal felony offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine. Jones will remain in federal custody pending further criminal proceedings, according to the release.

The case was brought as part of the Department of Justice's Project Safe Childhood, which since May 2006 has combined federal, state and local resources toward locating and apprehending suspected sexual offenders.